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Therapeutic Ways with Words by Kathleen W. Ferrara, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
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Therapeutic Ways with Words by Kathleen W. Ferrara, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
From Kathleen W. Ferrara
Current price: $159.50
From Kathleen W. Ferrara
Therapeutic Ways with Words by Kathleen W. Ferrara, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Current price: $159.50
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Therapeutic Ways with Words provides a unique glimpse into language use in psychotherapy, an important speech event which has previously been shrouded in mystery. This important book shows how both clients and therapists accomplish their aims through language, which, paradoxically, is both themethod of diagnosis and the medium of treatment in this cultural practice. With a discourse analysis of tape recordings and transcripts of actual psychotherapy sessions enhanced by a variety of ethnographic observations, Kathleen Warden Ferrara explores the skillful and creative uses of language inthe complicated speech event of psychotherapy. Shedding light on discourse practices such as retellings of personal experience narrative, jointly constructed sentences and metaphorical extensions, and strategic uses of repetition, the study emphasizes the interactive nature of all discourse andshows how language is mutually constructed as people interweave pieces of their own and others' sentences, metaphors, and narratives. | Therapeutic Ways with Words by Kathleen W. Ferrara, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters